Client who breached curfew five times receives a fine

Case study summary

Our client had received a community sentence with a curfew and restrictions on where he was allowed to live. He admitted to failing to comply with the requirements set by the court. We persuaded the judge to impose a £50 fine rather than extending the community sentence.

Case study

Having originally been arrested for driving whilst unfit through drugs and failing to surrender to custody, our client received a community sentence with conditions which required him to live and sleep at his mother's address. He was also required to comply with a curfew between the hours of 7pm and 7am and was provided with an electronic monitoring tag.

Our client was accused of damaging his electronic monitoring tag and failing to comply with his curfew on five separate occasions. He explained that he was having relationship troubles with the mother of his children and he had turned to drugs to cope. He could not remember how his tag broke but he admitted that he did not take care of it. He also admitted to being late home on five separate occasions as alleged.

He contacted our firm because the tag was due to be removed in one weeks' time and our client was ready to move on with his life. He did not want to be subject to the requirements of his community sentence for any longer than he had to.

The evidence against our client was strong but one of our expert criminal defence lawyers explained to the court that our client had complied with the conditions of his community sentence every day for the last three months, other than on the occasions in question. He wanted to return to live with his children and help their mother with caring for them.

Our client received a £50 fine and his tag remained scheduled to be removed in one weeks' time. He was relieved and looked forward to moving on with his life and back into his home address with his children.